Chocolate, disk space woes and CSS

Above: Jeff and Ray and an Unknown Dog.

Thanks to Julie for pointing me to this BBC story about a guy who ended up in the hospital after spending two hours trapped in a vat of chocolate.

At least it was dark chocolate.

And thanks to Tom Smith for pointing me to CSS Zen Garden. Holy cow, some of these designs are gorgeous! Check out some of these amazing examples: in each, the HTML for was exactly the same; the graphic artists just changed the CSS. I SO WANT TO LEARN HOW TO DO THIS! Easier site maintenance plus I can't resist the creative flexibility factor.

Thanks to David Barker for the W3Schools CSS tutorial link...looks like a useful resource. I've also signed up again for a monthly subscription at Lynda.com. I used Lynda.com a while back to learn more about Corel Painter; the online video tutorials are excellent, and the site keeps updating with new tutorials. I notice they have some CSS and Javascript tutorials as well as other things I'd like to learn, so I've decided to renew my membership. Right now, I'm going through "CSS For Designers" and learning a great deal, not just about CSS but about the history of Web design.

Does anyone know of other sites like Lynda.com? Ones that offer other subject tutorials? I think these are a brilliant idea. You can watch the tutorial videos at your own convenience as often as you'd like, and I've been impressed by the quality of instruction on Lynda.com.

I'm also trying out Google Analytics. It's a free stats service (thanks to Jeff for the heads-up), and I'm curious about how well it works. More on this in an upcoming Blathering. So far, I've found stats analysis especially useful in helping me find resources related to my work as well as showing me where my sites need improvement.

Apologies for wonkiness on Inkygirl recently. I've been running out of hard disk space, and page rebuilds have suffered. I've been paranoid about one of these "not enough hard disk space" glitches causing major devastation, so I've removed the UBB message boards and am going through my other sites and files to see what else I can get rid of. :-( Hopefully this Blathering post will get added safely. I've been moving some sites to another server in hopes that this will help. Thank heavens for Flickr, else I wouldn't be able to post as many images on Blatherings these days.

Meanwhile, I've continued to work on DebbieOhi.com, this time adding some more samples and adding a personal page that includes a new list of my recording projects (speaking of recording, Ken Lalonde is coming over tomorrow night to record my flute for a track on Judith Hayman's upcoming CD).

So far, I've learned enough about CSS to strip out the stylesheet from my Wordpress version of My Life In A Nutshell. Yay, now I can play around with creating my own stylesheet from scratch.

We'll see what happens...

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